Cannot install Fedora Core 15 or 17 Guest on RHEVM 6.3 / RHEVH 3.1 Beta

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I've not been able to install either Fedora Core 15 or 17 on my new RHEVManager 6.3 / RHEVH 3.1 Beta setup.

 

I've successfully installed:

  • Ubuntu 12
  • Windows 7
  • Windows XP
  • Centos 6.3

When I start the VM with either of the Fedora Install CDs, it starts booting the CD and then goes to a blank screen.

 

Any ideas?

 

VM is defined as 1GB RAM/20GB DISK thin provisioned, SINGLE CPU.

 

I tried upping to 2GB RAM, made no difference.

 

Thanks,

James

 

JL
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JL Active Contributor 340 points
14 November 2012 5:31 PM

Nothing?

 

James

Henry Hutton's picture Red Hat Guru 4309 points
14 November 2012 6:48 PM

Hi James, I think you might have us stumped on this :)

 

We've been making the rounds to find some guidance here and appreciate your patience. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

AV Red Hat Expert 879 points
15 November 2012 11:08 AM

Hi James,

 

Eventhough you would be able to install other linux distributions in RHEV, only RHEL and Windows VMs are officially tested and supported. Please check the following URL:

 

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.1-Beta/html/Administration_Guide/Supported_virtual_machines.html

 

Having said that, can you check if you can start the VM using a different console than the one configured. For example, instead of spice try VNC. Also what is the status of the VM in RHEV Manager.

 

Thanks,

Anil

JL Active Contributor 340 points
15 November 2012 3:08 PM

Anil,

 

That's kinda a cop out isn't it :)

 

Anyway, yes, I already tried accessing the console via SPICE and VNC.  No change.

RHEVM thinks the VM is up and running HOWEVER CPU utilization is showing as 100% on the VM when the screen goes blank.

 

I tried updating RHEVM yesterday using "yum update" but kept getting an error.  Some package wasn't available.  I'll get the error and post it.

 

Tried everything again yesterday.  Installed Windows 2012 in a VM successfully (Using IDE disk since I can't get virtio-xxx.vfd to be seen by RUN ONCE).  But still cannot get Fedora Core 15 or 17 to install.

 

Regards,
James

JL Active Contributor 340 points
15 November 2012 3:51 PM

Here are some screen shots.

 

http://www.lenaburgs.net/images/FC17BootFail.jpg

http://www.lenaburgs.net/images/FC17BootFail2.jpg

http://www.lenaburgs.net/images/FC17BootFail3.jpg

 

Regards,

James

AV Red Hat Expert 879 points
16 November 2012 12:43 PM

Hi James,

 

The point is that if its not a supported OS, we have limitations to debug it in detail.

 

However I tried to reproduce the problem from my side and was not reproduciable. I could install F17, on RHEV3.1. Following are my environment details,

 

- rhevm-3.1.0-26.el6ev.noarch

- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor release 6.3 (20121107.0.el6_3)

- Fedora-17-x86_64-DVD.iso

- 2G RAM

 

Have you able to see the Fedora welcome screen displaying "Install or Upgrade Fedora". If yes, try text mode installation instead of gui

Can you please try a different spin of Fedora. Ex: http://spins.fedoraproject.org/xfce/

 

Thanks,

Anil

JL Active Contributor 340 points
16 November 2012 7:45 PM

Anil, the solution was to update my Hypervisor.  I was on 20120910 version and upgrading to the 20121107 fixed the problem.

 

Regards,

James

David Powles's picture Red Hat 25369 points
19 November 2012 4:11 AM

Glad you got it fixed, James. Thanks for letting us know how you solved the issue too.

AV Red Hat Expert 879 points
19 November 2012 6:58 AM

Hi James,

 

Nice to hear that you have able to solve the problem  and thanks for sharing the solution.

 

Regards,

Anil

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